Well, the problem with multi-user windows environments is that it's IMPOSSIBLE to find software that installs or sometimes even RUNS without admin privileges.
It's probably bad programming habits picked on by developers, but that is a serious pain.
If I could install software JUST for me in my unprivileged winxp account and screw what everyone else in my house installs in theirs, that would be VERY nice.
and I don't know either, but I think most people will agree it _is_ a very significant slice.
1)you can only vote for somebody in one of the 2 major parties or else you are "throwing away your vote"
I think that mindset is loved by the dicks in the 2 main parties, and they probably actively work to maintain it. And that's probably not too hard with the obscene amount of money they get from corps to do their dirty work after getting elected.
I think some people vote for their party, some vote for the 'lesser of two evils', some vote for Gore if only to keep Bush out, and some don't vote at all. I see a pattern as in all those reasons except for the first are bad reasons to be voting ( or not voting ).
I think the message should be clear to all US citizens: "You only throw away your vote if you DON'T vote"
My opinion is that people in the US should bite more to defend their freedoms there. I mean, I know about a statistic that says about only half the voting population actually votes? Distressing...
I know it's not the/. folks that are going to turn the thing around, as most people here can and do think for themselves. But maybe some more action could do some good. Like convincing others to vote too, and not just "vote for the suit that seemed to have won the debate".
Try to figure out what they're about. I know it's hard, it's their _job_ to lie and steal, but it has to be done.
When the racket coming out of a democracy starts getting to the noise level of Cuba or China, and their presidents hollers out stuff like "they hate the america! they hate freedom! they hate newborn babies!" and people buy it, well.... just let the downmods come.:)
I think theyre gonna do what no other distro bothered doing. A nice, working out of the box, easy to install and configure Linux distro. With all google tools nicely built in.
You snooze, you lose, everybody else. Thank god for the GPL and LGPL, though. Less risk of another monopoly rearing its ugly head.
I think this would be a good thing to give average joes another choice in OSes.
Presidents are SUPPOSED to be morons. They dont hold the power, they draw attention away from it, read the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy for more info.;)
Although Im not comparing the President of the Galaxy with the president of the united states of america. Zaphod is tons cooler and funnier.
I gotta tell you, that while the gameplay is fundamentally different, Guild Wars was the best MMORPG Ive played in a while. WoW is fun in its fashion, but I think when it came out the idea was showing signs of age already.
Im sorry, I must digress. Although I didnt use skype, I think gtalk is crystal clear. ive used it as voice comm while playing MMORPG's and talked to my girlfriend while she was on dialup and a noisy line. no complaints here:)
Seems as you didnt read that tech paper on the emission of radioactivity by coal plants.
According to that, coal plants should be regulated to trap emissions of uranium and thorium from the coal burn process, which is stated to be much higher than the radioactivity produced by nuclear plants.
Since SO much coal is burned worldwide, those plants could trap more oxide releases for treatment and fissionable materials to sell for a profit, reducing the operational costs that would no doubt come from more strict regulations, because of the thorium and uranium emissions.
That way we could have the best of both worlds, coal plants that are a little cleaner, and plenty of fuel for the nuclear plants of the future, which hopefully will become MUCH safer.
The CIA kills all of you, the government will blame terrorism and use that as an excuse to tighten security even more and turn the USA into the FIRST GALACTIC EMPIRE, and the files on the whole case wont be allowed disclosure until 2199. =)
But I hope they get the votes. Something big could happen.
I dont agree. I think Firefox is the not something Id call bloatware.
I mean, just a little 10-20MB browser that doesnt mess with the system much and will actually result in you getting less spyware and crap from sites you visit.
I generally think that if it doesnt load on startup uninivited and bogs down your machine it aint bloatware.
"(Telecoms) and the cable companies have made an investment, and for a Google or Yahoo or Vonage or anybody to expect to use these pipes (for) free is nuts!"
-- SBC Communications CEO Ed Whitacre
LOL! smell that fear, the desperation!
For example, document icons are no longer a hint of the type of file, but rather a small picture of the file itself.
This is SO stupid, IMHO.
Good icons work, so now all you're gonna do is add the overhead of generating a little thumbnail of a Word document, that due to size will be just 10% different from all others and you'll still have to name it appropriately.
Ah, why save resources when u can spend them, right?
Umm...what? You just have to install X11 and nvidia-glx and you should be up and going, the package management tool handling the rest.
and SDL or whatever libs u use to handle sound, input, networking blablabla...
actually that DirectX approach of installing one stuff to get games working is quite smart.
If the Linux community wants REAL games developed, they should do something in that line. Put SDL, OpenGL, everything in one neatly defined package and ported for Windows too. That could give DirectX a bit of a run for their money, and it would be something that a lot of game developers seem to be shouting for: a portable gaming framework with OpenGL support, instead of being forced to take up *spit* Direct3D.
Im confused by your comment. When they hired the lead GAIM developer to help with google talk, the 'something similar' with firefox would be hiring their lead developer to help with their own browser project.
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I'm sorry, but I don't understand what's wrong with saying something is 10 times thinner than a sheet of paper.
In math-think I'd write 1x = (1/10)y where x = sheet of chip and y = sheet of paper.
right????
Well, the problem with multi-user windows environments is that it's IMPOSSIBLE to find software that installs or sometimes even RUNS without admin privileges.
It's probably bad programming habits picked on by developers, but that is a serious pain.
If I could install software JUST for me in my unprivileged winxp account and screw what everyone else in my house installs in theirs, that would be VERY nice.
and I don't think it's that high a percentage.
and I don't know either, but I think most people will agree it _is_ a very significant slice.
1)you can only vote for somebody in one of the 2 major parties or else you are "throwing away your vote"
I think that mindset is loved by the dicks in the 2 main parties, and they probably actively work to maintain it. And that's probably not too hard with the obscene amount of money they get from corps to do their dirty work after getting elected.
I think some people vote for their party, some vote for the 'lesser of two evils', some vote for Gore if only to keep Bush out, and some don't vote at all. I see a pattern as in all those reasons except for the first are bad reasons to be voting ( or not voting ).
I think the message should be clear to all US citizens: "You only throw away your vote if you DON'T vote"
My opinion is that people in the US should bite more to defend their freedoms there. I mean, I know about a statistic that says about only half the voting population actually votes? Distressing...
/. folks that are going to turn the thing around, as most people here can and do think for themselves. But maybe some more action could do some good. Like convincing others to vote too, and not just "vote for the suit that seemed to have won the debate".
:)
I know it's not the
Try to figure out what they're about. I know it's hard, it's their _job_ to lie and steal, but it has to be done.
When the racket coming out of a democracy starts getting to the noise level of Cuba or China, and their presidents hollers out stuff like "they hate the america! they hate freedom! they hate newborn babies!" and people buy it, well.... just let the downmods come.
Yeah, bash the guy all you want, just let him keep the programmer title, please.
:P
He just happens to also be evil and have business-savvy.
I think theyre gonna do what no other distro bothered doing. A nice, working out of the box, easy to install and configure Linux distro. With all google tools nicely built in.
You snooze, you lose, everybody else. Thank god for the GPL and LGPL, though. Less risk of another monopoly rearing its ugly head.
I think this would be a good thing to give average joes another choice in OSes.
Presidents are SUPPOSED to be morons. They dont hold the power, they draw attention away from it, read the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy for more info. ;)
Although Im not comparing the President of the Galaxy with the president of the united states of america. Zaphod is tons cooler and funnier.
Ok grandpa... sure.. time for your medicine. :)
Not if you read the article and realize they plan to fix one bug in the Core Due and fixing none in the P4 ( Pentium 4 )
I would prefer to see booting osx86 on a non intel mac then ruining a perfectly good mac with xp.
You meant running osx86 on a non MAC intel, right?
I gotta tell you, that while the gameplay is fundamentally different, Guild Wars was the best MMORPG Ive played in a while. WoW is fun in its fashion, but I think when it came out the idea was showing signs of age already.
Im sorry, I must digress. Although I didnt use skype, I think gtalk is crystal clear. ive used it as voice comm while playing MMORPG's and talked to my girlfriend while she was on dialup and a noisy line. no complaints here :)
A gramme is better than a damn! :D
Mentioning quicktime, the fact that I HAVE to get iTunes along when I just want the quicktime player is FUCKING ANNOYING.
Seems as you didnt read that tech paper on the emission of radioactivity by coal plants.
According to that, coal plants should be regulated to trap emissions of uranium and thorium from the coal burn process, which is stated to be much higher than the radioactivity produced by nuclear plants.
Since SO much coal is burned worldwide, those plants could trap more oxide releases for treatment and fissionable materials to sell for a profit, reducing the operational costs that would no doubt come from more strict regulations, because of the thorium and uranium emissions.
That way we could have the best of both worlds, coal plants that are a little cleaner, and plenty of fuel for the nuclear plants of the future, which hopefully will become MUCH safer.
Easy, lets just put cameras on the TV so that they can see whos watching and how many.....
:P
1984 is NOT 22 years ago. Its 2 years from now.
Yeah, and choppers dont have exactly stellar range.
This thing could like, just hover overhead, let stuff out, pick some stuff up, and stroll away cheap.
What's the worst that happens?
The CIA kills all of you, the government will blame terrorism and use that as an excuse to tighten security even more and turn the USA into the FIRST GALACTIC EMPIRE, and the files on the whole case wont be allowed disclosure until 2199. =)
But I hope they get the votes. Something big could happen.
constness
is that even a word???? =)
I dont agree. I think Firefox is the not something Id call bloatware. I mean, just a little 10-20MB browser that doesnt mess with the system much and will actually result in you getting less spyware and crap from sites you visit. I generally think that if it doesnt load on startup uninivited and bogs down your machine it aint bloatware.
About the context then:
:)
telco guy going absolutely flippy because now anyone with a 56k link and Google talk doesnt really need him anymore.
"(Telecoms) and the cable companies have made an investment, and for a Google or Yahoo or Vonage or anybody to expect to use these pipes (for) free is nuts!" -- SBC Communications CEO Ed Whitacre LOL! smell that fear, the desperation!
For example, document icons are no longer a hint of the type of file, but rather a small picture of the file itself.
This is SO stupid, IMHO.
Good icons work, so now all you're gonna do is add the overhead of generating a little thumbnail of a Word document, that due to size will be just 10% different from all others and you'll still have to name it appropriately.
Ah, why save resources when u can spend them, right?
Umm...what? You just have to install X11 and nvidia-glx and you should be up and going, the package management tool handling the rest.
and SDL or whatever libs u use to handle sound, input, networking blablabla...
actually that DirectX approach of installing one stuff to get games working is quite smart.
If the Linux community wants REAL games developed, they should do something in that line. Put SDL, OpenGL, everything in one neatly defined package and ported for Windows too. That could give DirectX a bit of a run for their money, and it would be something that a lot of game developers seem to be shouting for: a portable gaming framework with OpenGL support, instead of being forced to take up *spit* Direct3D.
Im confused by your comment. When they hired the lead GAIM developer to help with google talk, the 'something similar' with firefox would be hiring their lead developer to help with their own browser project.